The Pirate Bay website may be blocked soon from six of the UK's Internet Service Providers, but the publicity surrounding that move has apparently caused a big traffic jump on The Pirate Bay site itself. TorrentFreak.com reports that according to an unnamed spokesperson for the site, "Thanks to the High Court and the fact that the news was on the BBC, we had 12 MILLION more visitors yesterday than we had ever had before."

The UK's High Court ruled a few days ago that six ISPs in the UK must block access to the site, which many believe promotes online piracy of content. Virgin Media has already started blocking access to the site for its customers. The article states that other UK ISPs like Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, and O2 will also put in their own Pirate Bay blocks. It appears that at least one ISP, BT, is "still considering their position" on the matter.

The unnamed Pirate Bay spokesperson also claims that the "free advertising" for the site in the form of news stories will only increase The Pirate Bay's traffic levels. The spokesperson added, "Another thing that’s good with the traffic surge is that we now have time to teach even more people how to circumvent Internet censorship."

As we have reported before, UK residents still have a number of ways to access The Pirate Bay, even with the ISP blocks. They include accessing a VPN service, using a darknet, signing on Google's DNS servers or the OpenDNS servers and more. Some ISPs are apparently preventing the DNS server trick from working, however.